( 1 ) PRESENT is an appeal filed by one Sunil Dey and Sukumar dey against the judgment delivered by the learned Single Judge of this Court. These two appellants were not parties to the writ petition which was allowed by the learned Single Judge. They, therefore, sought the leave of this Court for filing the appeal and on such leave being granted to them they have preferred the appeal and challenged the judgment.

( 2 ) THAT writ petition was filed by one Ajoy Nandi Majumdar wherein he had challenged the land acquisition proceeding started under Sections 4 and 6 of the West Bengal Land (Development and Planning) Act, 1948 (hereinafter referred to as 1948 Act) in particular he challenged the notification dated 24th february, 1982 and the notification under Section 6 of the 1948 Act dated 31st december, 1991. The claim made before the Court was that the petitioner was an 'interested person' in respect of Plot No. 223 of C. S. Dag No, 183 having total area of 1. 067 acres as he had purchased a portion of land from this plot. The petitioner pointed out that the land was purchased by him from one Amiya kumar Dey way back in the year 1977 by a sale deed and